Article: Germany – Margot Wolk

There are some jobs you could never get paid enough for to actually do – then there are jobs you probably don’t get paid enough for, yet have little choice but still have to do them. I imagine the job that Margot Wolk had was in that category.

The link below is to an article that takes a look at Margot Wold, Adolf Hitler’s official food taster.

For more visit:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/hitler-food-taster-margot-woelk-speaks-about-her-memories-a-892097.html

Today in History – 24 May 1830

Mary Had a Little Lamb is Published

OK, just a little trivial history for today perhaps – though I am sure that some people will see this as very interesting news. ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,’ that is the nursery rhyme, was first published on this day in 1830 by publishers Marsh, Capen & Lyon. The nursery rhyme was written by Sarah Josepha Hale
and was apparently based on a real life situation.

For a book of poems for children by the author Sarah Hale, including Mary Had a Little Lamb –

Visit the Internet Archive at:
http://www.archive.org/details/poemsforourchild00haleiala